you are expected to select a company and three competitors from the same industry and prepare an analytical report in which you will critically evaluate, analyse, discuss and comment on the key issues in the financial appraisal. You can select a company f

Individual Assignment Instructions

For this assignment, you are expected to select a company and three competitors from the same

industry and prepare an analytical report in which you will critically evaluate, analyse, discuss

and comment on the key issues in the financial appraisal. You can select a company from your

own industry.

You will be expected to use the latest financial statements of the companies.

The report will make reference to scholarly research and explicitly address the following:

- An analysis of the current business and financial health of your company. You are

expected to employ financial ratios and the Altman Z-score to examine the financial

health of your chosen company in comparison to its competitors.

- A research evaluation and critical analysis of the industry sector and a financial analysis

of three other companies in the same sector.

- You can benchmark base on previous years’ data.

- A critical appraisal of the financial strengths and weaknesses of your chosen company

compare to the listed competitors.

- A critical evaluation of the financial techniques (i.e., ratio and the Z-score) applied in the

analysis.

- Recommendations suitable for your company

- A reasoned conclusion and summary of your findings.

- Use charts bar graphs etc., to visualize your findings.

The report will be assessed base on the financial techniques employed and a critical discussion of

the subject literature, not on a “right” conclusion.

Report (100%) (Main body) should not materially exceed 2,500 words, excluding bibliography /

references, appendices and tables.

Detailed calculations used in the report should be documented in an appendix, with the results in

the main body.

Import information:

- Please keep a hardcopy of your work.

- Check the course site for formatting standard for written assignments policy

Submission Date: January 28, 2019 at 11:55 p.m

I have selected pharmaceutical industry and the company is Pfizer. My three competitor is Sanofi, Novartis and Johnson & Johnson. For the latest financial statement of each company please visit www.mergentonline.com or www.investing.com and you will get the latest financial report.

Word Count: 2500 words.

APA format.

Minimum 15 references (in-text citations, Use Journals, Peer reviewed articles).

Use recent articles from 2012-2018 latest editions.

· 4 companies from same industry

· Critically evaluate, analyse, discuss, comment on key issues in financial appraisal

· Industry analysis

· Financial statements / ratios for chosen companies

· Financial health of company